The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea seeking directions for the Union to set in motion the delimitation process for increasing the number of assembly seats in the States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh delivered the judgment.

The writ petition sought directions to the Union to operationalise Section 26 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act. It was contended that delimiting the assembly and parliamentary constituencies of only the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, with the exclusion of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, created an unreasonable classification and was therefore unconstitutional.